QUESTIONS: Some people believe that open educational resources "fix" many of the problems experienced by those who work with learning objects. Why do you think they would say this? Do you agree? Why or why not?
I was so happy to reach this moment of the course! The Learning Objects literature is so interesting! I just wish our course schedule allowed us more time to study this subject in more detail.
I do not know about the other colleagues, but I could not hear all of Dr. Wiley's online presentation. It would not load completely, for some reason. It stopped at about minute 21. Well...
I still remember the first time that I heard about LOs. It was more or less five years ago and I was puzzled by such concept. I then made my own research and learned some basic ideas. But I did not learn then about how significative openness to education is. I do agree with what "some people say" about open educational resources.
As I said, I did not listen all of Dr. Wiley's presentation, but from what I could understand adaptability and reusability are critical for LOs. "Frictionless" adaptability is even more important. Simply because obtaining permissions (to use copyrighted materials) is too hard and complicated. It has two costs, according to Wiley's chapter The Learning Objects Literature (p. 351):
1) "The license cost paid in exchange for the rights to reuse a learning object" and 2) "the hidden transaction costs associated with determining who holds the rights to a specific learning object."
As one can see, having an educational object that is sharable, simple, reusable and adaptable does not free instructional designers from having big headaches. :-) Openness is the feature that frees one from having to pay those costs. And the Creative Commons as well as the GNU licenses are the ones to guarantee such openness.
We have learned that there are all kinds of approaches to LOs - from more traditional to more permissive perspectives. But to me the assumption that open educational resources are the solution to achieve the democratizion of education is still the stronger one. Maybe this sounds visionary and idealistic but, well, the world does not progress without those elements. But let's not forget that quality is an element that cannot be forgotten - no matter what the approach might be.
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Catia, first of all: I had no problem with the David's presentation.. :-)
I strongly agree with the need to maximize adaptability of content.
In my week 11 post I'm proposing to replace "reuse" with "adaptation". I don't see a many "reuse" cases while I can figure a lot of "adaptation" situations!
Of course, it is necessary to have all the conditions for adapting, both legal and technical issues have to be considered.
It's the point stated by my friend Pierfranco in his comment to my post...
I am so happy too, Catia! It is nice to read about the other members of what I am starting to consider more as a community rather than a cold list of participants. It is a pity that you could not enjoy Dr. Wiley's whole video, it was interesting even because now I know he's got a voice and he is also a brilliant talker and a humourist. Maybe is he human? ;-)
I share your ideas about adaptability, openness and your opinion that the problem of copyright in the production of LOs is far to be solved and still gives instructional designers some "big headaches". Cheers from Italy
Yes, quality is number one.
When you talk about direct licensing costs and hidden transaction costs, that made me wonder how much of the LO material out there is licensed so as to not allow adaptation. Think of all the time spent putting together technical specs and recording everything properly in the database so they can be searched and accessed properly, but then if you can't even really use the material how you like, once you have found it...seems to be a lot of waste.
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